While I've seen a great deal of discussion about human rights surrounding these stories, I've seen precious little about sovereignty.
Yeah the whole Treaty of Westphalia thing is like so fine minutes ago. It's been repeatedly violated, of course, (US -> Granada, US-> Bay of Pigs, US -> Iraq 2003, Germany -> Poland 1939, USSR -> Hungary 1958, etc. etc.) but the point was that the principle remained. Now, with the Bush Doctrine of "we'll bomb the crap out of anyone we feel like" has become the preemptive SOP, sovereignty has become a secondary issue. What the Google operation unmasks is the fig leaf that is government itself. Government is simply the means by which the ruling class projects and protects its interests.Completely amoral and unmoored from historical notions of continuity and reciprocity, it is now a Hobbesian war of all (industrial systems) vs all (industrial systems) over the dwindling resources to feed said systems.
At least the obvious is now much more obvious to ever larger groups of ever stupider people.
Look on the bottom of the computer your typed that on, and let me know its country of origin.
And if it was made down the street at the local computer dood's shoppe, then look and see where the parts were made. Lemme know what you find, because dollars for donuts it says "MADE IN CHINA".
It's for the iPad, because millions of fanboy^H^H^H^H^H^H early developers shat themselves when the iPad was revealed to have no multitasking. The iPhone is fine the way it is, and could continue in its present state for quite a while without multitasking (outside of the OS centric parts, like time and calendar, etc.). This is *all* about the iPad. I for one am very happy to see this, as the lack of multitasking was one thing that told me not to bother with the iPad.
With multitasking and iWorks, I can actually get something done with it while pissing away my life on the subway or on a bus. Now all I need is for Adobe to come up with PDF support on the iPad, and I am one happy camper.
Why? Second Law of Thermodynamics. Look it up. Learn it. Engrave it on the back of your eyelids.
It's better to generate the electricity and use it directly as energy, than to use it to make a non-renewable energy container (natgas).
If you do want to store it, it is best to store it in a form native to its nature (batteries, capacitors) or one that is renewable (such as using excess electricity to pump water back over a dam. Yes, there is massive loss involved, but the water is renewable and can be stored without much difficulty or complex technology.
agreed. Especially considering that gas is a finite resource and we need to use is for MATERIALS not energy, as its value in fertiliser, plastics and other materials FAR outweighs its value as an energy source. We need gas to build the wind farms, and as many as possible as quickly as possible. (As well as solar thermal and other energy production systems). Because there will come a day, and it's not that far off, when fossil fuels will not be energetically profitable to mine, at which point we will leave them in the ground except to extract them as materials, not as energy.
This isn't a question of IF, it merely a matter of when and how, and IF the gas companies had half an ounce of sense in their heads, they'd be "Springfield Energy" not just "Springfield Gas".
I totally agree. I type around 30 - 40 wpm when I'm typing quickly like I have to type something. Usually I type a line at around 30 - 40wpm, and then I stop and think about what I'm going to say next - is it well thought out? Does it make sense? Is it grammatical? Then I type a line and look at it, and think - "is this what I want to say, and is it "good enough" english for the target audience"? Speed is of no real consequence. 90wpm bullshit is still bullshit.
good grief. And what next? Why not just become a brain in a juice bucket and not even bother living and embodied life of risk and adventure?
If there are more than 2 lines the straight odds are that "the other like" will move faster. In fact - I have an idea - just herd the human race itself into some oven, and let the machines rip each other off. They'll be able to do it so much faster and easier without us.
Maybe the Nazi pigfuckers simply didn't look at things in a big enough way.
right. Like bicycles don't exist. Like you can't move closer to work. If you can't see past anb automobile in your life, you won't have a life to live much past 2025.
You're wrong. What constitutes defence is PARAMOUNT to the discussion re: defence against drone.
Let's say you engage in a behaviour like eating sugary things (like gobbling up a huge amount of the world's resources and supporting evil regimes) that attracts bees and Wasps (terrorists, drones, etc.). Sure, you can spend PILES of money on insecticides (patriot missiles, TSA, etc.), or, you could simply stop engaging in the behaviour that attracts bees and wasps.
Duh. But people like you are greedy, lazy, and stupid, and can't live without their SUVs, McMansions, and daily intake of beef, sugar, and Salads in February, and so rather than change your behaviour, you would rather ramp up the insecticide production. Tards. Keep it up, and expect people to bomb the crap out of you. It's really very simple, almost Newtonian in structure.
"Time, time, what is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. You know what I say? I say time is a crook."
- - From the movie "Beat the Devil" (1954), directed by John Huston,
I agree - that was NOT flamebait. He was simply stating his preference for SuSE vs. Ubuntu and why. I prefer Ubuntu, but I guess some fanboiz have thin skin or something. Yeeesh.
the problem is, the test is not likely to test emotional maturity. They might have the book learnin' but they won't have the lived experience. The teenaged brain is literally missing important parts that aren't fully developed until 19 or 20, mostly having to do with risk assessment and sociality. There's a reason why a 16 yr old is many times more likely to wreck a car than a 19 year old.
Also, I teach some classes in media theory, I recently had a girl in the class who was "super bright" and graduated HS early. She was 17, and she pretty well flunked out.
I completely agree with your fear re: the "Everyone Is A Winner!!!" idiocy so prevalent in the USA. Given the power of money in the USA I am quite certain that rich assholes would buy their kids through the process by dumbing down the test. We can already see that in the stupendously stupid grade values given to students in University.Here, anything over an 80 is in the A range. Fuck. When I was a kid, you had to get better than a 92 to get in the A range. And today, less than a 50 is a fail, in my youth, less than 65 was a fail. Why the softening? Parents who give money to schools want their babies to come out with A's all around...
I think that if this "testing out" of high school is implemented, your worst fears will come true: rich little idiots will end up in university at a young age, and here in university, we'll be passing them along because of the grade inflation.
Well, not that emotional maturity and numerical age are correlated in a direct manner (I've known plenty of elderly idiots who were narcissistic crybaby jerkoffs) but there is something that happens with experience (on one end) and the classic "grey hair" syndrome in group sociality. Not that an older person is necessarily more experienced, but they tend to be so.
And no, i did not get "passed over" for the job - I honestly didn't want it. what I saw was this: you do coding long enough and people burn out on it and often want more responsibility and control over a product. They emotionally invest in a system and attach to it and want to do more than just code.
So they turn 40, look around, realise being the boss sucks, and then get sacked for being old and expensive. It's not just coding - it's also graphic design. You don't see a lot of older people doing design production work - they tend to either become art directors or find some other job.
you ask "why are bosses paid more?"
No idea - I'm with you on that one. I always found that irritating as well. But I'm an old commie pinko mutherfarker. I think people who dig ditches and pick fruit should be the highest paid people. But that's me.
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Yeah the whole Treaty of Westphalia thing is like so fine minutes ago. It's been repeatedly violated, of course, (US -> Granada, US-> Bay of Pigs, US -> Iraq 2003, Germany -> Poland 1939, USSR -> Hungary 1958, etc. etc.) but the point was that the principle remained. Now, with the Bush Doctrine of "we'll bomb the crap out of anyone we feel like" has become the preemptive SOP, sovereignty has become a secondary issue. What the Google operation unmasks is the fig leaf that is government itself. Government is simply the means by which the ruling class projects and protects its interests.Completely amoral and unmoored from historical notions of continuity and reciprocity, it is now a Hobbesian war of all (industrial systems) vs all (industrial systems) over the dwindling resources to feed said systems.
At least the obvious is now much more obvious to ever larger groups of ever stupider people.
Gee, what a surprise. That was hard to predict. Not.
And if it was made down the street at the local computer dood's shoppe, then look and see where the parts were made. Lemme know what you find, because dollars for donuts it says "MADE IN CHINA".
Open = Open.
yeah - epub. Nasty things.
My understanding is that the iPad only supports EDOCS.
I would LOVE to be wrong on this, believe me.
"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces"
With multitasking and iWorks, I can actually get something done with it while pissing away my life on the subway or on a bus. Now all I need is for Adobe to come up with PDF support on the iPad, and I am one happy camper.
RS
Why? Second Law of Thermodynamics. Look it up. Learn it. Engrave it on the back of your eyelids.
It's better to generate the electricity and use it directly as energy, than to use it to make a non-renewable energy container (natgas).
If you do want to store it, it is best to store it in a form native to its nature (batteries, capacitors) or one that is renewable (such as using excess electricity to pump water back over a dam. Yes, there is massive loss involved, but the water is renewable and can be stored without much difficulty or complex technology.
RS
This isn't a question of IF, it merely a matter of when and how, and IF the gas companies had half an ounce of sense in their heads, they'd be "Springfield Energy" not just "Springfield Gas".
RS
RS
I totally agree. I type around 30 - 40 wpm when I'm typing quickly like I have to type something. Usually I type a line at around 30 - 40wpm, and then I stop and think about what I'm going to say next - is it well thought out? Does it make sense? Is it grammatical? Then I type a line and look at it, and think - "is this what I want to say, and is it "good enough" english for the target audience"? Speed is of no real consequence. 90wpm bullshit is still bullshit.
I'm glad you got the joke. cheers.
If there are more than 2 lines the straight odds are that "the other like" will move faster. In fact - I have an idea - just herd the human race itself into some oven, and let the machines rip each other off. They'll be able to do it so much faster and easier without us.
Maybe the Nazi pigfuckers simply didn't look at things in a big enough way.
Oh, right - it's slashdot. Where no one reads TFA and everyone thinks "the Market will fix it". Like Magic.
Freeze in the dark for all I care you fucking hippies.
right. Like bicycles don't exist. Like you can't move closer to work. If you can't see past anb automobile in your life, you won't have a life to live much past 2025.
Let's say you engage in a behaviour like eating sugary things (like gobbling up a huge amount of the world's resources and supporting evil regimes) that attracts bees and Wasps (terrorists, drones, etc.). Sure, you can spend PILES of money on insecticides (patriot missiles, TSA, etc.), or, you could simply stop engaging in the behaviour that attracts bees and wasps.
Duh. But people like you are greedy, lazy, and stupid, and can't live without their SUVs, McMansions, and daily intake of beef, sugar, and Salads in February, and so rather than change your behaviour, you would rather ramp up the insecticide production. Tards. Keep it up, and expect people to bomb the crap out of you. It's really very simple, almost Newtonian in structure.
- - From the movie "Beat the Devil" (1954), directed by John Huston,
written by John Huston and Truman Capote
Once they give it multitasking.
And support for an open variety of file formats.
And stuf like that.
Like, a LOT of stuff like that.
The platform will need killer apps...
I agree - that was NOT flamebait. He was simply stating his preference for SuSE vs. Ubuntu and why. I prefer Ubuntu, but I guess some fanboiz have thin skin or something. Yeeesh.
Also, I teach some classes in media theory, I recently had a girl in the class who was "super bright" and graduated HS early. She was 17, and she pretty well flunked out.
I completely agree with your fear re: the "Everyone Is A Winner!!!" idiocy so prevalent in the USA. Given the power of money in the USA I am quite certain that rich assholes would buy their kids through the process by dumbing down the test. We can already see that in the stupendously stupid grade values given to students in University.Here, anything over an 80 is in the A range. Fuck. When I was a kid, you had to get better than a 92 to get in the A range. And today, less than a 50 is a fail, in my youth, less than 65 was a fail. Why the softening? Parents who give money to schools want their babies to come out with A's all around...
I think that if this "testing out" of high school is implemented, your worst fears will come true: rich little idiots will end up in university at a young age, and here in university, we'll be passing them along because of the grade inflation.
Argh.
RS
Well, not that emotional maturity and numerical age are correlated in a direct manner (I've known plenty of elderly idiots who were narcissistic crybaby jerkoffs) but there is something that happens with experience (on one end) and the classic "grey hair" syndrome in group sociality. Not that an older person is necessarily more experienced, but they tend to be so. And no, i did not get "passed over" for the job - I honestly didn't want it. what I saw was this: you do coding long enough and people burn out on it and often want more responsibility and control over a product. They emotionally invest in a system and attach to it and want to do more than just code. So they turn 40, look around, realise being the boss sucks, and then get sacked for being old and expensive. It's not just coding - it's also graphic design. You don't see a lot of older people doing design production work - they tend to either become art directors or find some other job. you ask "why are bosses paid more?" No idea - I'm with you on that one. I always found that irritating as well. But I'm an old commie pinko mutherfarker. I think people who dig ditches and pick fruit should be the highest paid people. But that's me.
When my last boss was 20 years younger than me, I changed professions... I'm not that old...
Yes, and if I have the magic ring I can disappear too!